Election Mocktail: The On Lime Voter During graduate school, one of Steph’s projects was a study on making the voting process more efficient and modern. What if voting didn’t involve long, slow lines and great, big voter registration rolls and arcane, hard to read ballots? In a whirl of optimism, naivete, and forward-looking, she went into the project asking, ‘If texts and online voting work for American Idol, why...
Read More12 Drinks of Christmas: The Christmas Martini It’s the 12th drink of Christmas! And for the twelfth drink of Christmas, my true love served to me … a Christmas Martini. It’s our final idea for making your holiday parties merry and your nights by the fire bright. We’ve mentioned this drink before, in our review of Founding Farmers. This was the ‘Chief’s Pick.’ We were supposed to give the...
Read More12 Drinks of Christmas: Spicy Lady For the 9th drink of Christmas my true love served to me … a Spicy Lady. It’s #9 of our 12 drink ideas to make your holiday parties and quiet nights by the fire merry and bright. Many years ago, when I was new to the world of cocktails, I went to Alibi. I ordered some drink that involved spicy rum and Kahlua. It was the best drink I ever had. Then I went back. They had changed their...
Read More12 Drinks of Christmas: Cat’s Collar Welcome to the Twelve Drinks of Christmas. Over the next two weeks and change, bringing us to the very edge of Christmas Eve, we’ll be giving our top twelve suggestions of cocktails to make your holidays merry and bright. Some of them are good pitcher drinks, perfect for your Christmas party; others are best enjoyed with a friend or two by the fire. Feel free to drink along. But...
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Fall Five: Pumpkin Pie Shooters Series Links | Rosemary Bourbon Sour | Apple Margarita | Apple Manhattan | Fall Ginger Smash | Spiced Rum Old Fashion We wrap our Fall Five series today with one of our all-time favorite party drinks. These are a must, either for Halloween or Thanksgiving-or, you know, just a Friday night when you’re craving fall and need to shake off the work week. People always ask us who liked cocktails...
Read MoreThe weekend is here! Has this week felt long to anyone else? Ours has been full, but of entirely good things So who’s to complain (except our distant friend, Sleep)? The Pope. The subsequent one time only Federal Pope Holiday as half the city had to ‘work from home’ given the number of road closures. Friends in town. A newly engaged sister. See all good things. One of the highlights, and some news that we’re...
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